It’s a neat nod to what has become a webgame metagenre, the “Tower Defense” game. I look forward to the day when we won’t name genres for influential games and will instead have an understanding of how interactivity is constructed, why a certain combination of mechanics and content seem to harmonize so well, and where it’s reasonable to draw the genre lines. Somebody solve this problem! Anyhow, big ups to my main man Kyle, he of the Indie Midas Touch :P.

And then it hit me. What we as Americans really want in order to decide our next leader is…a reality show! Think about it; contestants could be recorded around the clock without the benefit of their speechwriters and consultants, we could put them through a bunch of asinine “leadership challenges” like managing a McDonald’s for a day, and we could verify what we’ve always known: that they’d gladly eat hissing cockroaches to become president. We could find out who they really are – it’d be amazing!

It would be hosted by James Carville since he apparently wants to get into acting.

Season 1, Episode 1 Challenge: come up with a viable Iraq strategy in 24 hours or less and present it to congress. Winner gets immunity next round and a $100 Chevron gas card.